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1 " War creates many strange juxtapositions, perhaps none stranger than this: men who are doing their utmost to kill other men can transform in a split second into lifesavers. Soldiers who encounter a wounded man (often an enemy) become tender, caring angels of mercy. The urge to kill and the urge to save sometimes run together simultaneously. "
― Stephen E. Ambrose
2 " As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth. "
― Boris Pasternak
3 " When people are doing their utmost to upset you, it's probably best to just laugh at them. "
― Wayne Gerard Trotman
4 " Over the years Breece had lectured that truth was liquid. That it evaporated in the heat of passion, froze in the cold of fear, and bent itself around virginous, unpurposeful fibs. It could churn and pull you under, drown you in itself, or let you ride upon it like a surf. But truth was always relfective. It showed blackheads and blemishes, fat rolls and sags, scabs and scars. Truth was fearful, angry and dangerous, and that was why so many people did their utmost to avoid it. "
― Brandon Shire , The Value of Rain
